"Pretty much all of Africa and South America and some of Asia."

"So in order for any particular dictator deposing to not be very provocative I need to depose all the dictators. Pretty fast."

"I think we are not the best people to ask these things."

"Yeah but who is."

Hannah shrugs.

"I don't know if you can find people who are good at this, really," says Sadde dubiously.

"I could make them but this doesn't feel like a good enough reason."

"Make them? Make people?—space Elves?"

"Yeah. Some of them are really good at that kind of stuff - they couldn't, like, just take over the world from a standing start, but with a teleporting demon they totally could."

"Okay but then... shouldn't you do it anyway? I mean there's millions of people in Brazil and all of these other places, if you could do better and fix everything..."

"Shouldn't I make some people who can take over the world? I don't know - like, it seems to me like I should, but it seems like the sort of thing to be really sure of -"

"But if you're gonna do anything to, like, lots of countries, that sounds like you should be even more sure of."

"...yeah."

"Wouldn't the heroes know more about that?" asks Hannah.

    "More about what?" asks Nathan, coming from the dormitories.

"The best way to end all the dictatorships in the world - the problem is that they can't do it, it'll be provocative, and it might not be provocative if I did it on my own and it was really obvious they weren't coaching me, but I sort of need them coaching me to do it without messing up."

Nathan blinks. "All the dictatorships—well, do people have to know they were coaching you? Anyone could be coaching you."

"I don't know - I guess maybe they'd know -"

"How?" he wonders, walking over to Hannah and sitting by her. He blinks at her computer. "What's that?"

    "A computer," she explains. "From the future."

"You want one?"

"Yeah."

Thumbnail computer. "They can't talk to each other yet, I'd have to put up a satellite. I can go do that."

"You sure it's a good idea to put up a satellite somewhere, just like that?"

Sigh. "No, I'm not."

"That I think a Tinker might be able to help you with. Easier than governments."

"Cool. The PRT was being really helpful - and will probably keep being really helpful - I could just trust them and do what they say. This country's probably not secretly a dictatorship."

"Well people come and go all the time," Nathan says dubiously.

    "And they helped me a lot," nods Hannah. Nathan scoots closer to her and snuggles up.